Smarter Than a 5th Grader
Often called both the “morning star” and the “evening star,” this planet shines brightest in our dawn and dusk skies.
What is Venus
Apple’s 2001 pocket music player that promised “1,000 songs in your pocket.
What is an iPod
Hanna-Barbera’s forever-feuding cat-and-mouse duo.
The night sky’s brightest star, found in the constellation Canis Major.
What is Sirius
A flaky stuffed pastry popular from Argentina to Spain—fill it with beef, chicken, or cheese.
What is an Empanda
In a food chain, animals that eat only plants (no meat) are grouped under this ecological label.
What is an herbivore?
AOL’s chat client famous for the “You’ve Got Mail!” greeting.
What is AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)?
Adult Swim show starring an alcoholic super-scientist and his anxious grandson hopping the multiverse.
What is Rick and Morty
In 1963 she became the first woman to orbit Earth.
Valentina Tereshkova
The soft white Italian cheese that crowns a classic caprese salad.
Lightning and the Sun are natural examples of this fourth state of matter—an energized gas of free-moving ions and electrons.
Nintendo’s 1989 handheld “brick” with a pea-green screen.
What is a Game-Boy
Cartoon Network blond with Elvis hair who says, “Hey, baby!
Who is Johnny Bravo
The Great Red Spot is a centuries-old storm raging on this gas giant.
What is Jupiter
A steaming bowl of Japanese noodles in broth, topped with chashu, egg, and nori.
What is Ramen
Of the three branches of the U.S. federal government, this one interprets the laws and can declare them unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch
Early-2000s flip/slider phone with a swivel screen, beloved by skaters and celebs.
What is Sidekick
The actor best known as Luke Skywalker traded his lightsaber for a maniacal laugh when he voiced the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
Launched in 1990, this space telescope’s deep-field images revolutionized astronomy.
What is Hubble Space Telescope?
Originating in Mexico City, this taco style stuffs corn tortillas with spit-roasted pork shaved from a vertical “trompo,” often garnished with pineapple and onion.
Taco el pastor
Give the correct plural form of the academic word “criterion.”
What is Criteria?
The 1999 peer-to-peer service that let users trade MP3s until courts shut it down in 2001
What is Napster
2001 Studio Ghibli film where Chihiro toils in a spirit bathhouse.
What is Spirited Away
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing—not even light—can escape.
What is Event Horizon?
Peru’s national dish of raw fish “cooked” in lime juice and leche de tigre, often garnished with red onion and sweet potato.
What is ceviche